A short teaser promo for “Radience”, the forthcoming album from former Breathing Space guitarist Mark Rowen.
It boasts a very impressive cast list, including the former Breathing Space rhythm section of Paul Teasdale and Barry Cassells, plus Moray McDonald, Rob Cottingham, Guy Manning and many more.
After the success of Trinity Live in 2014, the all-day progressive rock charity show at Leamington Assembly, they’re doing it again. This year’s bash wil feature Ghost Community, Touchstone and Lonely Robot, with more acts to be announced.
“It is with great pride and excitement we can announce, in association with Prog! magazine that Trinity will be back with a bang on Saturday 27thMay 2017. Put the date in your diaries folks and get ready to rock in support of some fantastic causes!
The venue will again be The Assembly in Leamington Spa. We have the lineup complete and we have many special events going on throughout the day. The day will be split in to 3 parts – the afternoon session, the evening session and the after show.
We are also delighted to announce that the headline act will be the amazing Lonely Robot. This is an exclusive as it will be first public performance of the all new, yet to be released, Lonely Robot II album. As many of you know, their performance in London in December 2015 was a sell out and featured a fantastic stage show. This full production will also be brought to the Trinity stage. To top it off, we can also announce that Touchstone and Ghost Community, will be part of the evening session. Three rocking bands to get you dancing in the aisles.
The afternoon bands will be announced very soon. The after show party will have a very special guest live performance plus one of Jerry Ewing’s infamous DJ sets. A fantastic way to end a fantastic day with the bands and the organisers! Jerry will have you bouncing around that dance floor, we promise.With your amazing support, the first Trinity show enabled the organisers to donate £12,000 amongst three cancer charities, and next year we want to smash that figure out of the ball park. Each and everyone of us has been exposed to someone who has dealt with cancer so let’s pull together and help raise some serious money to allow amazing organisations to fight this vile disease.
Get them while they’re hot and please, let’s light up social media and make this an event that will shine brightly for years to come and which will continue to raise more money, every year it takes place. Through music, through love, through adversity, together we can all make a real differentâ€
It it’s anything like as good as the last one, this will be a show well worth seeing. And it’s all in a good cause.
Rebecca Downes, winner of Best Emerging Artist and Best Female Vocalist in the British Blues Awards 2016, announces a live album Be:Live to be released on December 1st. Recorded at a variety of venues across 2015 and 2016, it presents a typical setlist from one of her electrifying live shows.
This is the track listing:
1. Never Gonna Learn
2. Walking With Shadows
3. Another Piece Of My Heart
4. Night Train
5. Long Long Time
6. Sweetness
7. Back To The Start
8. I’d Rather Go Blind
9. Basement Of My Heart
10. Sailing On A Pool Of Tears
11. Believe
12. 1000 Years
13. With A Little Help From My Friends.
Birmingham’s IOEarth have announced today that ILindo Odinsen is leaving the band.
Hi Everybody,
Just a brief note to let you all know that, as of this week, IO Earth and Linda Odinsen have decided to part ways. It has been a difficult decision, but necessary in the end due to the difficulties of the band being based in the UK, and Linda living in Norway.
‘It has been a pleasure working with you Linda and we wish you all the best. Thank you for giving your wonderful voice to the New World album. You’ll always be part of the IO Earth Family’.
Linda Odinsen:
‘At the end of last year I decided to make a big change in my life, I needed to be home in Norway. Sadly the distance makes it difficult for me to continue my cooperation with IO Earth. I want to thank the fans for the love and support you’ve shown me and the band throughout the years, I can’t express how much this has meant to me. I will always look back at my time in IO Earth with pride and feel thankful to have been a part of the journey. I wish the band success in the future’.
For our fans:
Please note IO Earth tour dates will not be affected and are still going ahead as planned! Thank you for your love and support! See you on the road!
Peace, everyone at IO Earth
IOEarth have no further live appearances scheduled for 2016, though they will be playing on the Cruise to the Edge in February 2017, followed by a number of festival appearances over the summer. No word yet on who the singer for those dates will be.
Singer-songwriter Marc Atkinson, lead singer of Riversea among others, announces his fifth solo album “Home Grown”. Recorded at his home studio in Cumbria, he plays all instruments, including some lead guitar.
He’s written a lengthy blog post describing the process of writing and recording, and the album is available to pre-order now from Marc Atkinson’s website.
In August 2015, Big Big Train played three sell-out shows at Kings Place in London. The gigs saw the band return to live performance after a 17 year absence from the stage, during which they had built a reputation for high-quality songwriting as shown on albums such as Folklore, English Electric and The Underfall Yard.
The Kings Place shows were awarded Live Event of the Year in the 2016 Progressive Music Awards.
A Stone’s Throw From the Line is a two CD live album which features the best performance of each song played over the course of the three Kings Place gigs, with the album track listing reflecting the running order of the shows.
The album is released on December 2nd, with pre-orders taken now from The Merch Desk.
Magenta are now taking pre-orders for a live DVD recorded at their co-headline gig with Touchstone at Leamigton Spa last November.
Titled “Chaos from the Stage”, the 105-minute DVD captures the entire set, drawing heavily from the band’s most recent albums “The Twenty-Seven Club“, “Chameleon” and “Metamorphosis” along with a few older favoutites. There is also an 80-minute audio CD.
The full track listing is as follows:
Glitterball
Lust
Guernica
The War Bride’s Prayer
Prekestolen
The Devil at the Crossroads
Towers of Hope
Demons
F.A.W.
Pearl
Metamorphosis
The Lizard King
IThe DVD is released on the 17th November
Tilt, the band featuring Fish alumni Steve Vantsis and Dave Stewart, have released a video for the song “Against the Rain” from the album “Hinterland” featuring Fish’s daughter Tara Nowy reprising her mother’s role from “Kayleigh” all those years ago.
The band have also launched a Pledge Music campaign for a 180g double vinyl edition of “Hinterland”.
As the official press release says…
Glenn Hughes is forced to cancel his UK/European tour today after the co-headliner Living Colour booked a conflicting support slot on Alter Bridge’s European tour. New management for Living Colour knowingly booked them onto the Alter Bridge tour although they were already confirmed for the Glenn Hughes co-headline tour, which had been on sale since April. Alter Bridge and Glenn Hughes have been long-time friends and neither Alter Bridge, their management and agents or even Living Colour’s agent TKO were aware that this was taking place.
Glenn Hughes was planning on touring Europe in support of his upcoming solo album, Resonate. When word got to promoters that Living Colour were no longer planning to perform on the co-headline dates, they were forced to refund all tickets. All ticket holders of Glenn Hughes’ UK/European tour will be offered refunds at the point of purchase and can call the venues for more information.
“I am saddened and disappointed that I will not be able to perform for my UK & European fans as I had originally intended. When I partnered with Living Colour to do this tour, I thought we would be able to make something special happen at these shows. Unfortunately, an undermining manager got involved and in turn ruined what would have been an amazing tour. I can’t wait to get back to the UK and Europe to bring the new songs of Resonate to my fans overseas†explains Glenn Hughes.
This is deep into WTF territory; I can’t think of any other tour that’s collapsed in similar circumstances, even though the usual “factors beyond our control” can cover a multitude of sins.
While it may prove that there’s more to this story that meets the eye, it does look as though there are some deeply scummy people in the world of rock’n'roll management.
Glenn Hughes new album “Resonate” is releases on November 4th.
